thoughts on politics

"We face many challenges in this country. But big as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me. It's the smallness of our politics.

There is a sense today that politics has lost its purpose - that somewhere between the 24-hour news cycles and the talking heads, between the negative ads and the personal attacks, between the partisanship and the gridlock, politics has stopped speaking to what matters in the lives of the American people.

I believe that we can change that.

I believe there is a different kind of politics waiting for us. It's a tradition of politics that has stretched from the days of the country's founding to the glory of the civil rights movement. It's a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. And if enough of us believe in the truth of that proposition - and enough of us act on it - then we might not solve every problem facing America, but we can certainly get something meaningful done during the time we share on this Earth.

This is the kind of America I believe we can have."


Barack Obama writes very well, wouldn't you agree? He's also hired a really good video editor. I'm keeping my eye on him.